Statuette of a Nubian Captive
Description
Catalogue description: Culture Egyptian Caption: Egyptian. Statuette of a Nubian Captive, probably 2nd–1st century B.C.E.. Steatite, 3 7/16 × 2 13/16 × 2 1/8 in. (8.8 × 7.1 × 5.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 49.59. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A dark stone ancient Egyptian figurine of a squatting individual with crossed arms.
The artifact is a small, carved stone figure representing a person crouched with arms crossed over the chest. The style indicates attention to physical form with simplistic features and no visible inscriptions. The figure is made from a dark stone, possibly intended to portray a servant or protective figure.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 49.59 tier-2
- BKM-Object 62601 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.